Changing the values of a likert-scale

[Anna weel]

I'm currently writing my thesis and I want to change the values of the Likert-scale. I want 0 never, 1 almost never, and sometimes all to get the value of 0 so those three become 1. For the value 3 often I want it to have the value of 1, for the value 4 I want this to become 2, and for 5 it needs to get the value of 3. How do I do this.
Thanks in advance.

Anna


. codebook c016a

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c016a Saya takut menjadi gemuk
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Type: Numeric (byte)
Label: d01lab2

Range: [0,5] Units: 1
Unique values: 6 Missing .: 67/581

Tabulation: Freq. Numeric Label
321 0 Never
64 1 Almost never
52 2 Sometimes
49 3 Often
13 4 Very often
15 5 Almost always
67 .

[Clyde Schechter]

recode c016a (0/2 = 0) (3 = 1) (4 = 2) (5 = 3), gen(c016a_rec)

Another way, a bit less transparent, is

gen c016a_rec = max(0, c016a-2)

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[Anna weel]

Hi Clyde,
Thank you so much for your answer.
Best,
Anna